Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lynn Harold Hough, when he retired from the ministry of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, attended a dinner given in his honor. At this dinner there were present a rabbi, Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth-El, and a Roman Catholic priest, the Very Rev. Father John Patrick McNichols, president of the Catholic University of Detroit Father McNichols praised the Methodist preacher in a short speech; then, on behalf of the Catholic institution, he bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws for having displayed "outstanding tolerance...
Hebrew Union College stands on a little knoll overlooking a park on the outskirts of Cincinnati. It was founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1875 to train preachers in the Reformed Jewish faith. Tuition is free; the number of students is small (117 this year). Famed graduates are Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of The American Hebrew and the new Jewish Encyclopedia; Abba Hillel Silver, young Cleveland rabbi...
...Sunday afternoon, April 29, at 3 o'clock, the Harvard Zionist Society will sponsor a reception and tea at the Commander Hotel on Garden Street, at which Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City and Professor Kirsopp Lake will be the speakers. Rabbi Wise will discuss the general Zionistic situation, and Professor Lake will speak on some aspects of the Hebrew University in Palestine...
This was Dr. Stephen Samuel Wise, Rabbi of the Free Synagogue (Manhattan) and ardent Zionist, who had had a disagreement with British Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization. The cause of the crack was to be found, at least partially, in Dr. Wise's eagerness to hurry the establishment of the Jewish Colony in Palestine as opposed to Dr. Weizmann's desire for less precipitous procedure. Dr. Weizmann is now in the U. S. to aid in securing...